Sunday 14 July 2013

Leverage From the Hidden Potential of Your Business with Enterprise Performance Management Solutions





By seeing the current enterprise performance management (EPM) market, it is very easy to identify that the fundamentals of EPM haven’t seen any huge shift in the last decade. For many of the enterprises or organizations, EPM is still a process of associating different business strategies with plans and execution, tracking and monitoring financial and operational results against the business objectives and goals and applying analytics to identify and understand the key trends while driving enterprise-wide performance through better decisions. 

So what has changed? The world in which we operate has changed. Even though the economic growth is quite slow, business cycles are speeding up which requires frequent and speedy planning and forecasting. You can find plenty of internally as well as externally generate data to analyze and leverage from planning and reporting. Also, the expectations of stakeholders are reaching sky high, which includes more quantitative and qualitative disclosures about the organization they are investing in. Also, the internal management stakeholders are asking for more frequent insights into the finance and operating results of the enterprise they are investing in.

However, even if the workforce has changed, technology is changing like anything with the evolving trend of cloud, mobile and social computing. Such technology enablers have created many opportunities that will help organizations drive more innovation while enhancing the efficiency. While today’s market imposes a huge number challenges to achieve the desired goals, you can find plenty of other ways to unlock the hidden capability and potential of your enterprise to gain more benefit and profit with noticeable growth. Such opportunities may include:

-          Eliminate the need of investing more in the products who are not performing well or under-performing.

-          Concentrating more on various under-served customer segments within an organization, which will help you improve the customer satisfaction.

-          More effectively and efficiently utilizing the existing resources like staff and capacity within an enterprise to drive desired results.

-          Helps investing more in the new markets, products and services.

-      Establishing more efficient and effective business processes while minimizing the IT complexities to reduce the costs.

Today, many enterprises have realized that an integrated enterprise performance management solutions or platforms can surely help them break down the barriers to achieve success, associating business goals to the results while identifying and unlocking the hidden capabilities of the business. With the help of highly performance-driven EPM systems or solutions, enterprises can easily deliver the required business outcomes to achieve success in today’s competitive market. Also, such platforms can easily identify the needs of finance, IT as well as line of business managers to make sure they achieve consistent and better decision making. 

So it is obvious that EPM solutions bring a whole host of features and benefits for your organization. However, you may have to take proper care while implementing such EPM solutions within your enterprise. To gain more insights of how Oracle Hyperion EPM can help you unlock the hidden potential of your business, keep reading our blog posts.

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